Stopped by Ponte Vecchio restaurant in Danvers on Sunday night and Gloucester folks Barbara and Al Boudreau were singing and playing in a jazz band there. Really enjoyed the show (and the food!). Barbara sings and Al sings, as well as plays the drums. Their duets are kind of fun as they sing about their (mostly comical) ups and downs of being married. They also host an occasional jazz Supper Club at the Gloucester House and other North shore locations. To check out their upcoming schedule you can visit their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Barbara-Al-Boudreau-Quartet/88511732526. (The sax player is Billy Novick of Lexington)
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Guest Post From Tuffy- Skipper of The Degelyse
FW: feb. 2012 — last trap hits the dock @ capt. joes ,,,, season over !!
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Community Stuff 7/19/12
Website What’s Going On At The Gloucester Writer’s Center-
On June 24th, Vincent’s 99th Birthday, his friend Lee Strauss challenged the GWC to match a $5,000 grant. At this time we have just over $2,000 more to raise. If everyone gives $10-15 we’d be over the top! If the spirit moves you, click here and scroll down the page to the Donate button. It will take you to our Paypal site where you can make a credit card donation. Thanks!
Call for Poems!
Wednesday, July 18th at 7:30 pm @GWC
Come hear Patricia Sutherland and Charlotte Coe Lemann. Patricia will read from an essay of her memoir, I Belong To Glasgow, which was recently published in Consequence Magazine. Charlotte will read from her current manuscript, To Bear the Beams of Love, to be completed by her 80th birthday, a year from now.
Vincent Katz & Vivien Bittencourt
July 25, 2012 7:30 pm @GWC
Vincent and Vivian will use Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems, in
tandem with the poet’s biography, to make an examination of
place and time. As they have done in the past when researching
locales related to the Roman poet Sextus Propertius, so in
Gloucester they will use Maximus, plus other writings, as a map
to trace locales of importance to Olson.
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GMG Sweeps The 2012 BONS (Best of North Shore) Magazine Awards For Best Blog Editors Choice and Best Blog Readers Choice
Congrats! Best Blog Readers Choice and Editors Choice!
http://nshoremag.com/bons2012-blog/
Ashley Drinkwater
northshore magazine
From North Shore Magazine–
July 17, 2012 by Northshore ·
Photos, food content, and area events are a few of the things you’ll find posted by Joey Ciaramitaro, the outspoken author of Good Morning Gloucester. The blog’s popularity is evidenced by its always-active (and entertaining) comment threads. Good Morning Gloucester, goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com
Readers’ Choice: Good Morning Gloucester
Editors’ Choice: Good Morning Gloucester
I want you all to read one sentence very carefully from North Shore Magazine’s Announcement-
The blog’s popularity is evidenced by its always-active (and entertaining) comment threads.
This isn’t just Joey Ciaramitaro and My Awesome Contributors’ Award, This Is Every Person that submits a story, and especially the people who are active in the comment section telling our contributors how much you appreciate their energy, positive spirit and artistic abilities.
Thank you each and every one of you who have given us so much back in the form of positive energy which keeps us driving and pushing to be the very best for you. Love Ya!
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2012 Reid’s Ride Photos From Tina Ketchopolos
Joey: Here are some photos from Reid’s Ride in memory of Reid Sacco that took place yesterday from Lynnfield ending at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester.
Reid’s parents Gene and Lorraine Sacco of Lynnfield began this event in memory of their son Reid R. Sacco. They are an incredible parents with lots of support from wonderful family members and friends.
The ride is a 28-mile Bike-a-thon , a fun and rewarding way to support clinical and scientific research into finding more treatments — and someday a cure — for the cancers that predominantly strike adolescents and young adults. Cyclists of all ages and abilities pedal their way from Lynnfield to Cape Ann in what is the primary fund-raising event for the Reid Sacco Memorial Foundation. The event registration fees, sponsorships and donations benefit the Reid Sacco Memorial Cancer Research Fund, and this fund supports clinical and research programs in the area of young adult cancers. The Foundation’s mission is to improve the outlook for this population of cancer patients, a population that has been tragically underserved by recent advances in cancer treatment.
Sacco was born July 24, 1984, which is intentionally close to the ride date. Sacco’s goal was to ride in a bike-a-thon to prevent young adult cancer, but cancer took his life before he achieved that desire. He died June 16, 2005 at the age of 20. Reid was enrolled at Columbia University to study Chemical Engineering
In late June 2012, the Reid R. Sacco AYA Program at Tufts Medical Center was announced – the program includes the establishment this summer of the Reid R. Sacco Adolescent & Young Adults Clinic for Cancer and Blood Diseases, as well as the establishment of the Reid R. Sacco AYA Fund to support educational initiatives at Tufts. This extraordinary achievement was made possible by your participation in Reid’s Ride over the years.
This year’s Reid Rice raised over $100,000. with donations still coming in!
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Beautiful- Niles
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Storm Rolls In Taken From The Deck of The Trapper John Off Gloucester Ma Minutes Ago
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Boston.com $15 for $30 Lat 43 Deal On Now
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Thanks Sista Felicia For Saving Me With This spicy noodle salmon and Iced Tea For Lunch
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WARM WEATHER ALERT FOR ELDER RESIDENTS
The Rockport Police Department and the Rockport Council On Aging are asking residents to check in on their elderly family members, friends, and neighbors throughout the warm summer months.
Residents should pay extra attention to homes that are exceptionally hot and to warning signs of dehydration, heat stroke and exhaustion, which includes lack of energy, nausea and high body temperature.
The Rockport Council On Aging will also be welcoming seniors to the town’s air-conditioned Senior Center in the Community House at 58 Broadway.
Any resident concerned about an elder may contact the police at 978-546-1212 or the Council on Aging at 978-546-2573.
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4 Free Tickets To the Boston Lobsters Tonight
Courtesy Ryan and Wood Distillery and in Celebration of Our BONS Win.
To Win Be The First Commenter On this Post and Pick Em Up Here at The Dock. It’s That Easy.
Some great tennis being played here and the announcer is hilarious.
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Guest Post From Tuffy Skipper of The Degelyse
Tuffy Writes-
old salt —— tom burns — @ capt. joes , spring – 2012 telling me to go east , while he’s headin’ west . lied to me again !!! the real mcoy !!
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Local Artist & Artisans Sought 54th Annual 2012 Gloucester Sidewalk Bazaar
Summer is in full swing, and that means the Annual Gloucester Sidewalk Bazaar is only a few weeks away.
The Gloucester Downtown Association is happy to announce that they will continue to coordinate the efforts on behalf of Main Street Merchants and the City of Gloucester in celebration of 54th Annual Gloucester Sidewalk Bazaar. This annual three day event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday: August 2nd, 3rd & 4th from 9:00 am to 5:00pm each day rain or shine.
Local artist and artisans are invited and encouraged to participate alongside the resident merchants in the event the draws thousands of people to Downtown Gloucester each year.
Come help create an event that is A True Celebration of our Downtown and showcase our history having America’s Oldest Art Colony.
To download and application go to www.businc.org and click on Sidewalk Bazaar applications or contact Grace Giambanco Numerosi at gloucesterbazaar2012@hotmail.com.
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Attention Nike: Make Me Up Some Dri-Fit Boxer Briefs Stat
I have the greatest idea in the history of underwear and I can’t believe this hasn’t been done already.
With the insano heat we’ve been experiencing I know men everywhere will agree that a sweaty nutbag that’s stuck to your leg is just no fun.
Nike makes the greatest Dri-Fit moisture wicking t shirts known to man so why not whip up some Dri-Fit Boxer Briefs?
Hey I’ll be the spokesmodel for free. I’ll be the first customer and I’ll promise to buy 10 pairs (white please, I don’t need any fancy wierdo colors or designs, call me traditional)
Just get on it and produce me some Nike like STAT.
Men everywhere shouldn’t have to endure heat induced sticky nuts all day long when the answer and the technology is there for the taking.
My platform if I ever run for President will be nice dry nutsacks for every man in America if I get elected. Screw wasting money on all these messed up pseudo environmental programs where the only one saving or making money are the hacks behind these pseudo green technologies who take bajillions from our taxes. I’m promising a better American guaranteed and it starts with nice dry nuts.
Dry Nuts are Happy Nuts- That’s what I always say.
Who’s With Me?
Signed Joey C
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(I’ve dated some broads in the past that could probably benefit from some Dri-Fit panties as well) just sayin…
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GMG Inside The Numbers -Tuesday July 17, 2012 51,312 Views
We also posted our 23,000th post this morning.
That’s a whole lot of G Town Love. I’d say we’ve got a pretty good catalog of Gloucester material. if there is something you want to know about a search is worthwhile in the search box in the right hand column on the Blog.
I remember the first day GMG hit 100 views in a day and how psyched I was. Then I remember 1000, then 10,000 views, then I had the number of resident’s in the City of Gloucester as a target- BLAM blew that shit out of the water. I thought that there was a finite number of people with the nature of GMG being so hyperlocal that we would be bouncing off of barriers and topping off but no way Jose. Not yet anyway, the growth just keeps coming.
It’s a freight train baby. Jump on board and join the party or get run down by the beast.
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We gots a ways to go baby! Let’s Do This!!!!!!
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Community Photos 7/18/12
Susan LaRosa’s Lobster Mascot
American Glory At Cruiseport Gloucester From Anthony Marks
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Disabled American Veterans Forget Me Not drive in Gloucester This Friday and Saturday
Joey,This Friday and Saturday the Disabled American Veterans,chapter74 will be holding it’s annual Forget Me Not drive in Gloucester.We are hoping that the people of Gloucester continue to be generous and give whatever they can.The monies raised go to help the patients at the Edith B.Nourse Veterans hospital in Bedford,Ma.
Thank you,
Thomas R.Dagle Commander.
Thacher Island Fund Raiser-Kayak-a-thon July 21
Fundraising Paddle to THACHER ISLAND
The third annual Thacher Island Kayak-a-thon is scheduled to launch from Old Granite Pier in Rockport at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 21. Under the direction of certified sea kayaking guide Michele Marina Desoto, paddlers will make the 3-mile journey past Rockport Harbor and Straitsmouth Island to Thacher Island. Food donated by Cape Ann-area merchants will be served on the island.
Registration fee is $25. Participants who collect enough sponsorship money to reach $75, which includes the registration fee, will receive branded T-shirts and gift bags. Additional prizes will be awarded to paddlers who raise the most money, with a grand prize of two nights’ lodging for up to four people in the Thacher Island assistant keepers’ house (transportation not included).
Profits from the Kayak-a-thon will help fund the Thacher Island Association’s restoration and maintenance projects on Thacher and Straitsmouth islands; all donations are tax-deductible. Parking at Old Granite Pier will be free to Kayak-a-thon participants, and Discovery Adventures of Gloucester will have rental kayaks available on site. To reserve a kayak, call 978-283-3320 or e-mail info@discoveryadventures.org.
To register for the Kayak-a-thon, visit www.thacherislandpaddle.com or call Michele Desoto at 978-836-7165.
9th Annual Seacoast Seven This Saturday, July 21.
Shortly after his wife Marion died, Art McCann conceived of a road race to honor her memory and as a fund raiser for the Friends of Seacoast Nursing Home. While Marion was a resident at Seacoast, Art took over the chairmanship of the organization which supplies residents with extras like live musical entertainment and a lovely garden they can enjoy during the warmer months.
It’s no surprise that Art chose a running event as he was a record-holding runner in his day at Quincy High School. As a long-time Gloucester resident, he set out to lay out a course that would provide runners with picturesque views of the ocean. And, as a serious runner himself, he made sure that the course qualified as a certified course.
This year the 9th Annual Seacoast Seven race is set for this Saturday, July 21 at Stage Fort Park at 9AM. Runners can preregister online at www.seacoastseven.com. They can also register Saturday at the park starting at 6:30 AM. The following flyer provides more information.
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“Lobster glut brings down retail prices, at last” Article In The Boston Business Journal
Lobster glut brings down retail prices, at last
by Jay Fitzgerald, Special to the Journal
Boston Business Journal
Updated: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
An unexpectedly abundant catch this spring of soft-shell lobsters has finally begun to force down the price of lobster at restaurants and retail stores – much to the delight of consumers.
“We’re doing fabulous,” said Myalisa Waring, owner of the Lobster Pool restaurant in Rockport. “We’re serving lobsters like crazy. Everyone’s coming in and talking about the prices and want lobsters.”
“I haven’t seen catches like this in years,” said Frank Ciaramitaro, co-owner of Captain Joe & Sons Inc., a Gloucester wholesale dealer that buys lobsters direct from lobstermen on the docks. “For us, it’s been a record.”
Even though lobstermen began catching higher numbers of soft-shell lobsters in early June – about a month earlier than usual, creating an unexpectedly large surplus of lobsters early in the season – the retail prices for lobsters initially and generally held steady across much of Massachusetts through last week.
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2012 Blackburn Challenge Slide Show From Len Burgess
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Laurie Strickland Represents! In San Fran
Hi Joey,
Just sending some photos I took in San Francisco. One is representing from the Ferry Terminal looking at the Oakland Bay Bridge, the other is representing with a California homie. Enjoy!
Good Morning Gloucester 